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Three Million Women.

It is said that on the occasion Of the re-
cent semi-centennial jubilee of Queen
Victoria of England, three million wo-
men of her realms made her UP present
of rs, 900 pounds sterling, equal to about
1875, 900. This no doubt is meant as to-
ken of respect and the high esteem in
which these three million women hold
the Queen-and they no doubt meant
well. But when we think Of the great
number of other places and uses to which
this handsome sum could have been put
by those women and the great mass of
suffering humanity right there in Eng
land, upon whom could have been ex-
pended three times this amount, we can
not but wonder why these three million
women could have been so foolish. The
queen is already rich and did not need
the money, and there are thousands OF
poor suffering humanity every where
that is really in want and just to think the
great amount of good these women could
have done with this money.
The Atlanta Constitution in speaking OF
this gift says: "But it might be said
that there are better places for this mon
ey than the royal purse. Thousands OF
children lay in the garrets and novels OF
London, sick, ragged and starving, as the
splended pageantry of this jubilee pro-
cession swept to the grand abbey. Thou.
sands Of the Queens subjects in Ireland
are homeless and hungry. There are
dismal scenes Of misery, want and suffer-
ing all about the millionair Queen"
There is no doubt of the truth of this
picture, but the Queen Is not to be blamed
because she was the recipient Of this gift.
The only wonder to us is that there are
three million such foolish women. 1t is
always thus, though. Those who have
plenty shall receive more, and those who
have not shall be taken away what little
they have.-Herald and Ne,cs.
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The Panama Tragedy.

De Lssseps will not hasten to inform
the Paris bourgeoise who have sunk
their francs in the Panama canal, that
water has flooded one of the deepest and
longest cuts, although high above the
prospective canal work. The earth and
rocks taken out represent cost of mil:
lions of dollars, but the water has washed
back more than enough to fill all the
cuts. and the work is valueless and the
millions wasted. It seems that the Pan
anna tragedy, which has cost so many
lives and engulfed 80 many fortunes,
might as we'll be ended. The most
trustworthy accounts tell of men dying
like sheep, money squandered upon ut
terly improbable work, very little ad'
vance, and the prospect hopeless. De
Lesseps' abundant faith in himself may
float the project a little longer, but 1t will
be at cruel cost.
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In buying table linen the finer,
smaller the pattern the longer it will
last. When table cloths are half
worn, or past use as suchr- the best
parts may be cut into table napkins,
and, if neatly hemmed, few will no
tice that they are not of regular pat
terra, or these pieces may be used to
lay under boiled fish for serving; or
they will be found very convenient for
wrapping cake before putting away in
q tin box, for covering bread and a
score of other uses in the kitchen for
it is never we'll to leave food, after it is
cold, uncovered and exposed to air,
dust and flies.
4 saucer of charcoal kept in the
meat safe, pantry or refrigerator, will
keep everything sweet. 1t is an ex-
cellent disinfectant for teeth; little
lump pressed into cavity will sweet
en- the breath. It is also all excellent
de.ntifrice, and in small doses good for
all acid stomach.
WHAT is THE BEST FoOD?-A
successful Canadian dairyman thinks
bran, peas, and corn mixed makes the
best butter-producing food for cows.
Cows should be milked with dry
hands. Cows should not be milked in
proximity to offensive matter giving
out a disagreeable odor.
Silver, dried out of hot water on a
clean cloth will be always bright, and
will not always need the weekly
cleaning. 1t Is the washing in luke.
warm water and drying when cold
that makes the dull, leaden appearance
after few days use.
A. material called "featherbone," !"
prepared from the quilts of geese and
turkeys, is said to he largely taking
the place of whalebone for many pur-
poses.
During rainy days, ut this season,
valuable work can be done at the farm
i'm cleaning out stables, COW lots and
hog pens, and hauling fresh litter.
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Answer to Prayer.

In view of the many addresses"
messages" and "Protests' issued by
friends Of Peace at the beginning of the
wear. and the general appeal not only to
Governments but to God on behalf OF
Seace and to avert war, it certainly ought
to be noticed that suddenly the war cloud
dispersed. Bismark and the Pope joined
to promote peace. The French Govern
ment protested its opposition to war;
The Canadian Boards OF Trace to neacef
conference, The United States appoint
ed gentleman of Hebrew Congrega'
ton to represent this governmental at Con.
stantinopie, thus putting Jew where he
cannot be despised or persecuted a1G
may serve his countrymen and the worlo or
in the interest ofjustice and peace. The
American Congress refused to appropri'
ate $98, ,000, 900 for war.
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Manures for the Garden.

Farmers gardens are generally fer
tiliAed more heavily than any other
part of the farm but almost always
with stable or barnyard manure. This
as it runs is not complete fertilizer,
AMI its weak point is generally a def
cheney of phosphoric acid, and on
sandy soils potash. Market gardeners,
who use heavier dressings of manure
than farmers would think of applying,
find it profitable to change occasional
ly, applying perhaps in one year ten to
twelve hundred-weight of phosphate
of lime to single crop. The altera-
ton of manures is found to be quite as
important as rotation of crops, which
is found so essential in farm practice.
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WOman's Lot.

In general way it is quite in COM
mon with mans, yet there are points
where each has a separate sphere.
United, they are mutually dependent;
separated, they are each largely inde-
pendent. All men have to face the
world and earn living, and not infre-
women find themselves OBJ
liged to do no less. Men receive spe-
cial preparation for such work; !; shall
women be treated with like considera-
ton? 10 send any one forth to win
bread, unqualified, is cruel. A boy or
girl that is we'll equipped to meet the
future will look upon life more wisely,
free from dclusions and false ideas,
and will be in the best possible condi-
tion to appropriate any good luck that
might happen along.
When forced by circumstances into
the stern duties of life, the keenest suf-
ferers among women are those VINO
have grown up in homes of luxury.
1t is criminal for parents to- carefully
provide for the boys, and allow their
daughters to grow into maturity with
out laying a foundation on which they
can build a livelihood, should circum-
stances demand it. BY understand
ing the possibilities of the future, a
sense of responsibility is cultivated
and wisdom alone will dictate a pre-
paration. This preparation gives a
dignity and poise to character that
nothing else can equal. She must be
conscious of possessing an education
that can be turned into money If nec-
essary. This feeling places her at a
great advantage in every situation.
When woman sees life from the same
stand point as man, her lot WILDE I'M
mensely improved.
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Death Of DR.. Albert n. Shlpp.

Though for months it was known that
the health of DR.. Shipp was feeble, yet
the news Of his death was unexpected and
startling. He died. June 26, 1887, al
Cleveland Springs, n. c., where he had
gone few days before hoping for relief
and recuperation.
Much sorrow throughout the Southern
Church, especially in South Carolina,
will fall on the hearts Of his many friends
and admirers when they learn that Dr..
Shipp, the Christian gentleman, the sue
cessful educator and able minister Of the
gospel Of Christ, is dead.
Brother Ship was a native of North
Carolina. The first six years following
his admission Qs4D into the South Caro-
lima Conference he served the church In
the regular itinerant pastoral work. he
was then called to take charge of the
Greensboro IN. c. Female College. Next
he was elected to professorship in the
University of North Carolina. From
this. in 1859, he was called to the presi-
dency of Wofford College. In 1873 he
accepted the chair of exegetical philoso-
ply in Vanderbilt University where be
remained until 1885 when he retired from
active work and came back to his planta-
ton across the Pee Dee near Cheraw, S.
C. He was member OF every General
Conference to the last one preceding his
death. The mortal of this faithful SER
ysnt of God was buried near his quiet
country home in Marlboro County, s. c.
"The righteous shall be in everlasting
remembrance"
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Christian Neighbor.
- BY REV. SsDI II. BROWNE,
OF the South Carolina Conferences
No Time to Rest

Worry may kill oftener than overwork.
but continued labor, especially mental,
with no Sabbath, will destroy mind,
heart, and body before the due time for
their ending. cannot rest, says the ja-
ded worker; my business requires my
constant oversight; none but can know
the numberless small matters to be daily
considered. If left my office for even
few days there would be such an accumu-
latlon of work, such confusion, that to
straighten affairs would require more
time and energy than holiday is worth
All this holiday business is great evil
anyhow. People are running hither and
thither over the face Of the earth seeking
the rest they could better gain by rem ain
ing quietly at home; and thus the jaded
worker works on year after year unre-
mittingly, making life oftimes harder
than need be, refusing to see that his very
efforts to "keep at it. are defeating their
own end-he must, he will, all the sooner
leave his work forever. 1t is said that
by merely laying away from use GER
tain sort Of blade that it acquires new
edge-would not rest, resolnte refusal
for short time to attend to the thousand
daily demands of auy business, put new
edge on a mans mind, give him new
heart for the busy life which at hest is a
"trying'' one, give the trembling nerves
the respite they cry for at every moment?
No, no. The time for rest is not yet. /
cannot leave my work just now-do not
talk oft; it is impossible. Suddenly a
straw is laid upon the already over laden
worker-it may be a cold or fever or
some slight disorder-the wearied frame
sinks beneath the load-that 'little more
could not be borne, and the man who had
no time to rest is laid away to rest from
those dear business cares forever.
So often has he said that to admit ones
self unequal to task is to make him un-
equal to it, to say cannot do this thing
or that thing, need. rest, is to unfit ones
self for the work they should do. Never
admit that you are already overwearied
and one can work forever in the same
groove, amid the same unchanging scenes.
Say you can, and though the heart die
within the already dying body, though
the nerves cry out at every turn of the
torture screw, yet 60 on-there is no time
for rest. But at last when there is least
time, when cares are thickest, when busi-
ness is all unsettled, thousand things
waiting the workers attention. Death
suddenly says, Stop-Rest.
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A Good Story.

A Methodist minister tells us this
story: "Rev. William Barnes was an
Irishman, noted equally for his power
and his eccentricities. He wore a
shirt-collar of stupendous size and a
curly wig. The latter article of deco
ration was the subject of some un-
friendly criticism, and this coming to
his ears, he prefaced his Sunday SER
mon with the following remarks :
'Braithren, understand there's some
of We that don't like it because J. wear
a wig. Now, I've made up my mind
to wear it or not, jist as the congrega-
ton says. Here I am-look at me.
This is Billy Barnes with the wig.
And this-(taking the wig from the
bald pate) is Billy Barnes without the
wig! Which way will ye have hi!n?'
In the roars of laughter and vocifer-
GUS responses, Brother Barnes with
the wig'' that ensued, the wig-critics
were utterly discounted"
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A Picture Of Peace.
Baltimore american.

A robiu has built its nest in the mouth
of one of the Parott guns that ornam ent
the burial plot of the Maquoketa Uowa)
Grand Army Post-a picture of peace
which it would be difficult to improve
upon. This recalls to mind an incident
of the late war. Il. Buchannon Read. the
poet, in drunken stupor, was sitting in
Col. Forneys room when the editor be-
gan to dictate vigorous editorial, in
which the word "war" was used. Read
sprang up at the sound and exclaimed,
''War? war? Oh, that some beautiful
bird from the South would make its nest
in the cannon's mouth and stop this aw-
full carnage"
The poet had more sense in drunken
stupor than forty war heroes sober-if
thew are not drunk also.-ED. c. n.
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A flock of wild geese flying over
Waterbury, Conn.,, recently saw one
of the kites which the Waterbury
BOYS were flying. This particular kite
was up very high and the geese OBJ
iected to it. They circled about it two
or three times, and then four of their
number, seemingly delegated for the
purpose, attacked the kite and tore it
into shreds, and then went on their
way.
"What I do thou knowest not now
but thou shalt know hereafter" Is the
unwearied language of God in His
providence. He will have credit every
step. He will not assign reasons be.
cause He will exercise faith.
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Sabbath.

We have reliable information to the
effect that the authorities at the State
Penitentiary are constantly violating the
Sabbath by requiring the convicts to do
various kinds of work on this day. We
are told that they use it as the day to haul
the supplies from Columbia up to the
farm on Broad river in Lexington coun-
ty, and after taking the boat up for this
purpose they load it with wood and haul
wood back to Columbia, and in other
ways require work of the convicts on the
Sabbath. y The State pays a
chaplain to preach to the convicts on the
Sabbath. and at the same time they are
required to violate one of the command
ments, and not only that, but the Statute
law Of the State by doing manual labor
These observations might find applica-
ton nearer home.
On last Sunday the Newberry Cotton
Mills had force of hands at work on
SCOTS Creek digging well all day long,
and some of their men have been work.
ing more or less all day Sunday for some
time past:
We have only this to say, that If men
in authority, and men who WELD and
mould public opinion, encourage, sane
ton and require this violation OF the
Sabbath by those who labor for them. we
had as we'll repeal our laws against it.
and stop preaching from our pulpits the
observance of it.-Newber7y Herald and
Nei0s.
If the information of the Herald and
News is correct we agree to all it has said,
except that about "the repeal Of our
laws" and closing the "pulpits."
Rather let the guilty ones be punished
straightway-be made all example. Such
management, If it obtains as reported, is
disgraceful, oppressive and wicked. Let
the law stand and let the pulpits, includ-
ing that of the chaplain to the penitentia-
nv, speak out with no uncertain sound.
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Paul was not careful whether he
lived or died. He did not covet
wealth, he counted not his life dear,
but he was careful that Christ should
be magnified by his life and by his
death. That whether he lived ne
should live unto the Lord, or whether
he died he should die unto the Lord.
That whether living or dying he
should be the Lords. This is the
whole of it. To be the Lords Is better
than life and stronger than death.
When a man lives with God, his
voice shall be as sweet as the murmur
of the brook and the rustic of the corn.
The difference between man and q
dog is that when they 60 into saloon
together the dog will come out sober.
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A political orator, speaking of GER
tain general whom he professed to ad-
mire, said that Oh the field of battle
he was always found where the bullets
were thickest. "Where was that?"
asked one of the auditors. I'm the
ammunition box" said another.
"Papa," said a little five-year.old, |,
pointing to q turkey gobbler strutting
around in a neighbours yard, "ain't
that red-nosed chicken got an awful
big bustle!'
1t is said that the edeiweiss, the ia
NOUS flower of the Alps, Is found on
Mount Rainier, in Washington Terri
touy.
Woman's sphere is the home; mans
sphere is the base ball.
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Heroism Of Captain Grace.

Whilst ordinary acts of duty become
magnified into deeds of wondrous dar'
Ing under the clamor of military gio-
ry, we hear little of those acts of real
heroism which are continually being
done around us. AS devoted victim
to duty as ever fell amid the blare OF
trumpets and the smoke of battle has
just been consigned to the grave at
Chester.
Captain Grace, of the Atlantic liner
"America," and Commodore of the
National Company's fleet, encounter
ed a succession of fierce gales during
his last voyage. Whilst the storm
lasted he did not desert his post for q
moment, but stood on the bridge for
forty-eight hours, drenched with the
waves and nearly frozen by the cold.
When the storm subsided he retired ia
his cabin, went to bed, and in few
hours succumbed to an attack of in
fiammation of the lungs, against
which, so long as duty called, he had
struggled during storm and cold and
darkness. The blood-stained pages OF
military glory, record no brighter deed
than that of Captain Grace, but as
civilian and a hero of every day life
he goes to the grave unhonored and
unsung, as far as the State is concern
ed.-EchO.
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For months past certain sons of Belial
have been libelling the best men and wo-
men of Walhalla, S. c. There can be
little doubt that the malicious libellers
are the incendiaries who burned the Keo-
wee Courier office and contiguous law
offices. 1t is hoped that no guilty one be
permitted to escape. Hard labor for life
in the penitentiary would be heavenly
punishment for all such malicious mis-
creants.
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(Philddelphid IImes.)

The American people are beginning
to learn the value of rest. They are
naturally go-ahead people, and many
thousands wear themselves out un-
timely each year by taking no relief
from business cares. The busy man
wants rest, and often change is as es-
sential rs rest.
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A Sunday.School Exercise.

Subject 'The Bible doctrine OF Peace,
with appropriate Hymns and Recitatlons,
by r. B. Howard. Published by the
american Peace Society, sent postage
paid to any Sunday-school which will
take contribution for the children's de-
partment of our work. Send to the au'
thor for specimen copy.
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KEEPING AccoUNTs.-If, madam,
you keep household accounts, be hon
est with them; put down everything
you spend. If you find you are spend
thing boldly. and at once try to dis
cover where the fault is. Do not trust
to next week or next month; begin
Immediately to retrench. In this, as
in most other work, it is towards the
middle one begins to get weary and
disheartened. Accounts for the first
month or two of the year are sure 10
be we'll kept, and so very probably
will be the last three. See that the
middle months are treated in the same
way, and that your account book for
that period does not present painful ,ful
ly new appearance, with only solita,
ry entry here and there; ,ntseslt Neglected snd
vaIue. Make account-keeping daily
duty, honestly performed; it will soon
turn into pleasure.
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(Standdrd and Home JourndL)

"Blatant worldiness without the real
power of godliness, is in many places,
ruling the church to its ruin. Ready
takers, skilful but shallow debaters,
puffed up but spiritually powerless &C.
clesiastical politicians too much man.
age the solemn and sacred and mo-
mentous interests of what, above all
other things. should be soul saving
church organization"
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What Others Say.
(Presbyte1'idn.)

CANNOT AFFORD IT.-The church
cannot afford to get away from the
poor. 1t would be wicked, if it were
even good policy. The church was
created for the poor, with all their
cares and grievances and it is our bus
mess to hear those grievances that
have facts in them, and not to despise
even the vagaries that are set toward a
better life. The rich we do not always
have in the church, but we do have
the poor; one Is shifting factor and
the other is constant quantity in the
equation of life. And among the poor
must ever be found the pillars of the
church, while the poor are the rich in
prospect. Time, that spoils and saves
all things says, turn about is fair
play" and is ordering men down from
the heads of their classes, and order
ing up those at the foot. The minis.
try can allay this growing hatred of
organized labor toward the church by
joining with the laboring classes heart
lily in all their efforts towards temper
ance, all efforts toward the educational
betterment Of themselves and their
children, by being ever ready to inter
vene for arbiters, to urge them to i'm
prove their condition by claiming
their Sabbath. The church must turn
these erring men toward herself or
they will be lost; and we must do ii
quickly. Both propitious time and
blessed opportunity have been already
lost.
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(Associate Reformed Presbyterian.)

(ASs0cadte fCeJoraed fTeSoyteI1dH)
We are accustomed to speak of the
smallness Of the trust-of the one tai
ent as contrasted with the two or five.
But we need to magnify the greatness
of the least endowment-the power for
serving Jesus of the least gifted of his
disciples. Who can estimate 1t? Who
can estimate the power of the least
gifted worker when working for God
and with God? Who can tell the
power of consistent, cheerful Chris
tian life?-the power of the Christian
word ever and anon fifty spoken-the
power of a daily life fully devoted to
the glory of God-of the daily wage
consecrated to the service of the Mas
ter-the power of earnest believing
prayer daily, constantly offered at the
throne of grace? These are all Ser.
vices within reach of the lowliest and
least gifted of all Gods children. And
yet who dare set limits to their etfi-
cheney?
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OOLS.

The Secret Of a Happy Day.
Just to leave In His dear hand g.,
Little things;
All we cannot understand,
All that stings;
Just 10 let Him take the care,
Sorely pressing: =.
Finding all we let Him bear
Changed to blessing; .,.-.
This IL all and yet the way
Mark ed by Him who loves the best
Secret Of happy day, ".'-i :. -.
Secret OF Ills promised rest!
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stay till the lame messenger come If
you would know the truth ofthe thing.